{"id":572487,"date":"2023-04-30T07:33:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T04:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/roy-wood-jr-defends-media-takes-on-king-of-scandals-trump-and-bidens-naps-at-correspondents-dinner\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T07:33:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T04:33:44","slug":"roy-wood-jr-defends-media-takes-on-king-of-scandals-trump-and-bidens-naps-at-correspondents-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/roy-wood-jr-defends-media-takes-on-king-of-scandals-trump-and-bidens-naps-at-correspondents-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"#Roy Wood Jr defends media, takes on \u2018king of scandals\u2019 Trump and Biden\u2019s \u2018naps\u2019 at correspondents\u2019 dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/AP23120122358164-e1682828635333.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>n Roy Wood, Jr. packed his White House Correspondents\u2019 Association (WHCA) dinner punchlines with barbs aimed at President Biden and the \u201cking of scandals\u201d former President Trump, while also roasting Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon and GOP lawmakers including Rep. George Santos (N.Y.). But, he struck a serious tone when saying much of the public can\u2019t afford some of the media\u2019s \u201cmost essential, fair and nuanced reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you left some of your classified documents up here,\u201d Wood, the night\u2019s headliner, quipped to Biden as he shuffled some papers on the dais at Saturday\u2019s dinner, a reference to Department of Justice officials finding materials with classified markings at the commander in chief\u2019s Delaware home and in a former office earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The \u201cDaily Show\u201d correspondent followed Biden\u2019s remarks at the dinner, throwing out jokes to a sold-out ballroom of journalists, lawmakers and celebrities at the annual Correspondents\u2019 soiree at the Washington Hilton hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe often overlooked purpose of tonight\u2019s dinner\u2026 \u00a0is to award scholarships to students who have shown great achievements in journalism,\u201d Wood said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to stop right now and congratulate tonight\u2019s top scholarship recipient: Arizona State senior George Santos,\u201d he said of the House freshman, who\u2019s facing multiple investigations for lying about his background.<\/p>\n<p>But the 44-year-old comic quickly turned his attention to two of TV\u2019s former biggest stars, Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>\u2019s Tucker Carlson and CNNs\u2019 Don Lemon. Both personalities were dropped by their respective employers within less than an hour of each other earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight we are all unified under one thing, and that\u2019s scandal,\u201d Wood said. \u201cScandals have been devouring careers this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mentioning Carlson\u2019s firing to cheers from some in the crowd, Wood said, \u201cSome people are celebrating, but to Tucker\u2019s staff I want you to know that I know what you\u2019re feeling. I work at \u2018The Daily Show,\u2019 so I too have been blindsided by the sudden departure of the host of a fake news program,\u201d he said. Trevor Noah exited \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d in December.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe gotta get Tucker back on the air, Mr. President, because right now there are millions of Americans that don\u2019t even know why they hate you,\u201d Wood added, as Biden grinned broadly.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about Lemon, Wood, who was a broadcast journalism major at Florida A&amp;M University before going into comedy, said, \u201cHow funny is it that you work in the news, then watch on the news that you got fired from the news?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s too many Trump scandals to keep up with,\u201d Wood said of the 45th president.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cCan we just all be honest and say that the Trump arrest didn\u2019t hit like we thought it was going to hit?\u201d Wood said of the\u00a0ex-president\u2019s arraignment\u00a0in a New York courthouse earlier this month on 34 felony counts, adding \u201cthe Trump arrest was like a pot brownie that you ate four hours ago. Do I feel justice? This doesn\u2019t feel like justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me try one of them Georgia arraignment brownies, maybe that\u2019ll hit,\u201d the comedian said as Georgia Secretary of state Brad Raffensperger (R), who was in the audience at the dinner, looked on and chuckled.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cscandals\u201d don\u2019t just include Republican figures, Wood suggested.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been no scandal more damaging than the scandal of: Is Joe Biden awake?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSay what you want about our president, but when you wake up from that nap, work gets done,\u201d Wood jested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[He] might doze off but then it\u2019s \u2026\u2019Infrastructure bill\u2026student loan forgiveness\u2026did we free Brittney Griner? Free Brittney Griner!\u2019\u201d Wood said, as he impersonated Biden.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Griner, the WNBA star detained for nearly 10 months in Russia who as ITK first exclusively reported was at the dinner as a guest of CBS News, hunched over her table <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earing to be in a fit of laughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wood dropped the one-liners as he denounced \u201canti-CRT\u201d Republicans who he charged couldn\u2019t define CRT, or critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnti-CRT policies are an attack on Black history and an attempt to erase the contributions of Black people from the history books,\u201d Wood said to applause.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cAnd a lot of Black people wouldn\u2019t mind that erasure as long as that Black person is Clarence Thomas,\u201d Wood said of the conservative Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n<p>Some in the audience jeered when Wood mentioned anti-drag legislation and gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrag queens are not at a school to groom your kids. Stop it,\u201d Wood said. \u201cAnd even if they were, most of them kids are going to get shot at school.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t groan, pass legislation,\u201d Wood chided the lawmakers in attendance at the black-tie fete.<\/p>\n<p>He also struck a more sober tone as he discussed the state of journalism amid nationwide cuts to local newsrooms and paywalls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe industry that covers all of these scandals, isn\u2019t immune to them their self. The issue with good media is that most people can\u2019t afford that. All the essential fare and nuance reporting, it\u2019s all stuck behind a paywall,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople can\u2019t afford rent. People can\u2019t afford food \u2014 not healthy food. They can\u2019t afford an education. They damn sure can\u2019t afford to pay for the truth,\u201d Wood said. \u201cSay what you want about a conspiracy theory, but at least it\u2019s affordable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that we have to put the stuff behind the paywall because creating the truth is important,\u201d Wood said, calling journalists\u2019s work \u201cimportant, essential, and dangerous.\u201d Wood noted that his father was \u201can embedded reporter on the front lines with Black platoons in Vietnam\u201d during the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we fix this?\u201d Wood said of the economic woes plaguing the industry. \u201cI don\u2019t know. I\u2019m a comedian,\u201d he said to laughs. \u201cBut local reporting is very important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wood had vowed to make his comedic remarks a bipartisan affair, in an interview with ITK shortly ahead of the dinner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you have to take shots at lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, otherwise you\u2019re not honoring the job,\u201d Wood, 44, said before the Correspondents\u2019 event. \u201cI don\u2019t think that we can sit here and act like both parties have been perfect in their duties of serving the American people,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s fair to come into this with fair critiques about politicians, also the role media plays,\u201d Wood said, \u201cbut more importantly the blind spot that I think a lot of the American public have to the media.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. 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